Many thanks again to John Francis who loaned me a couple of lenses for
the trip and gave me some very helpful feedback and pointers.
I've finally had a chance to go through the zillions of frames that I
took of the racing, winnow them down to a manageable number and put some
effort into processing them.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157657294568214
As always C&C are appreciated.
I don't think that anything has made me appreciate the Bay Area more
than spending a week and a half in Daytona Beach. The weather was
reminiscent of Singapore and the food of a shopping mall. Culinary
exploration consisted of finding chains that I had never been to before.
This was my first real serious attempt at photographing motorsports. I
had little else to do for ten days, since my only duties on the crew
were to make sure that the rest of the crew were fed and to run a few
errands left me plenty of time to practice.
I have never missed my Spec Miata more than I did watching the Spec
Miatas qualify and race at night. They were easily the largest class,
with 62 cars in the race. The qualifying times for the top ten drivers
were within one second out of 2:19.
http://cdn.growassets.net/user_files/scca/downloads/000/009/772/SM_Runoffs2015_Grid_Official.pdf?1443212827
Watching them bump draft, bumper to bumper with the car in back pushing
the car in front along faster than either could go on their own, on the
Daytona banking looked like so much fun.
Videos of the races can be found at:
http://www.scca.com/pages/2015-scca-runoffs-ondemand
I highly recommend that you at least skip to about 43:40 of the H
Production race. Things get very interesting on the last lap:
http://www.scca.com/videos/1972492
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